Re: Michael McGivern-Down Ireland

Donna,have you gotten a death cert for Michael? It may have some info on it that you can use.Looking at the 1796 Flaxgrowers List there are two McGivern men;John in parish of Annaclone and Murtagh in Garvaghy.This wouldn't be all the McGiverns but these two parishes are next to each other so McGiverns may be concentrated in this area.Ros Davies very good county down genealogy site also has quite a few McGiverns on it. The only thing is,the parish registers kept by the National Library and also microfilmed by the Mormons only begin for Annaclone parish in 1834 and for Garvaghy parish begin in 1823 both of which are to late for your Michael.The one place that may be able to help is PRONI in Belfast,Northern Ireland.You could contact them to see if they think they may have any info for the 1800-1810 period.Its just that you either have to visit there in person or pay a researcher to look at records for you.I hope this helps,Kim